Reading List 1-8-2005
Conyers, Boxer & Co.: In Defeat, a Victory?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010905E.shtml
Tsunami May Have Severely Damaged Coral Reefs
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Report Faults CIA's Pre-9/11 Counter-Terrorism
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010905J.shtml
Bush Paints His Goals as 'Crises'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010905K.shtml
Effort Under Way to Weaken U.S. Endangered Species Law
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010905W.shtml
Bush Secret Memo Advises Cuts in Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805B.shtml
White House Mulls Geneva Convention Overhaul
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805E.shtml
Dahr Jamail Iraq: The Devastation
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805F.shtml
Jared Diamond Disasters Waiting to Happen
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Edwy Plenel A Time of Catastrophes
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805H.shtml
Norman Solomon Acts of God, Acts of Media
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805K.shtml
William Rivers Pitt Heroes
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805X.shtml
ConocoPhillips Leaves ANWR Lobby Group
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805Y.shtml
POWER PLAY
Don Hazen, AlterNet
The battle for the "soul of the Democratic Party" has begun, with the opening skirmishes over Howard Dean and reproductive rights.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20922/
KEEP OBJECTING
John Nichols, The Nation
The brief debate over certification of the Ohio resultscannot be the end of the process. Democrats and Republicansneed to continue to feel the heat if election reform is tobe a reality.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20920/
TEN QUESTIONS FOR GONZALES
The Progress Report
The Senate began questioning attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales Thursday. Here are the questions they should be asking.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/20908/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
LYNCHING SOCIAL SECURITY
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
While health care and global warming are serious problems,Social Security isn't. We are, however, about to beswamped by an election-style campaign to convince us it is.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20916/
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
Ed Rampell, AlterNet
A blacklisted screenwriter takes a look at theReds-under-the-beds Cold War hysteria, documenting hisyears under FBI surveillance.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/20917/
G.O.P. Divided as Bush Views Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705B.shtml
Government Case to Destroy Civil Rights Lawyer Called "Cruel and Reckless"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705C.shtml
Sidney Blumenthal The Neocons Have a Hand in Aceh, Too
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705E.shtml
Maureen Dowd Don't Torture Yourself (That's His Job)http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705F.shtml
Reading Winds, Waves May Have Saved Ancient Tribes on Remote Indian Islands
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Mysterious Anti-American Conspiracy in Kuwait
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705H.shtml
Tom Engelhardt American Gothic: Self-Portrait with Shackles for the Year 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705I.shtml
William Pfaff Soft-Power Victories
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705J.shtml
The New York Times Ethics in the House
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705K.shtml
Will Pitt Interviews Rep. Conyers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705W.shtml
ONE PILL MAKES YOU BETTER
Vince Beiser, Chico News and Review
Drug and alcohol addicts are crossing the border to tryan addiction treatment called ibogaine, a powerfulhallucinogen that is banned in the US.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20913/
DAUGHTERS FOR DEBTS
Hayatullah Gaheez, AlterNet
Afghan poppy growers say the government's anti-drug program is forcing them to surrender their children to drug dealers.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20892/
TOP 10 DRUG-WAR STORIES OF 2004
The Editors, Austin Chronicle
It was a year to remember: hemp food was legalized; princess costumes were vilified; and medical marijuana made it to the nation's highest court.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20909/
WIRED AND TIRED
Maia Szalavitz, STATS
Why is the media still hyping an unproven and possibly deadly treatment for drug addiction?http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20891/
THE ORAL SNUFF RUSE
Jacob Sullum, Reason
The federal government's misinformation campaign encouragespeople to think smokeless tobacco is just as dangerous ascigarettes.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20914/
RETHINKING IRAQ
Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet
To be both responsible and effective, the anti-war movementhas to mature into a tightly organized, disciplinedpolitical campaign with a well-honed agenda and plan ofaction.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20902/
SENATORS SHOULD OBJECT TO OHIO VOTE
Rev. Jesse Jackson, AlterNet
The irregularities in the Ohio vote and vote count arewidespread and blatant -- an in-depth investigationis vital.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20897/
SOMETHING STRANGE
Jonathan Schell, The Nation
Why, when human need is the greatest, should the humanresponse always be left to whim?http://www.alternet.org/story/20903/
UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED
Yvonne Bynoe, AlterNet
Throughout her life, Shirley Chisholm publicly defiedconventional notions about race, gender and class.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20904/
DYING WITH DIGNITY
Matthew Scott Kelemen, AlterNet
Alejandro Amenábar explores the life of right-to-dieactivist Ramón Sampedro in 'The Sea Inside.'
http://www.alternet.org/movies/20905/
A CHANGE OF HEART
Michael Dorf, FindLaw.com
The latest Justice Department memo broadens the definitionof torture, but still leaves the door open to abuse.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/20901/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
Steve Weissman But What If Torture Works?http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605A.shtml
The "Crime of November 2"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605B.shtml
Race for the Arctic
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Powell Says It Plainly: Aid Has Image Value
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605J.shtml
Anne Applebaum Does the Right Remember Abu Ghraib?http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605K.shtml
Bruce Babbitt An Administration Roadmap to Salmon Extinction
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605X.shtml
The Conyers Report: What Went Wrong in Ohio
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605Y.shtml
THE 25 DUMBEST QUOTES OF 2004
Daniel Kurtzman, AlterNet.
Outrageous spin, inane flubs and Bill O'Reilly trying to talk sexy - all ready for consumption thanks to the internets.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20852/
ON THE 'PERSON OF THE YEAR' ISSUE
Matt Taibbi, New York Press.
Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' issue struggles to portray Bush as the intellectual statesman just as it takes blogs to task for their lack of professionalism. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20881/
MEDIA SENSE AND SENSIBILITIES
Norman Solomon, AlterNet.
Vigorous journalism is essential to prevent further erosion of civil liberties and other fundamental rights.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20880/
A REPLY TO THE NEW REPUBLIC
Eric Alterman, The Nation.
While the New Republic presented a much-needed liberal national security strategy, their effort amounts to a sophisticated version of More of the Same. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20874/
THE 2004 FALSIES AWARDS
Laura Miller, AlterNet.
Remembering the people and players responsible for polluting our information environment. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20865/
THE NEVERENDING STORY
Michael Lerner, Tikkun
Imagine if every day there were headlines saying: "29,000children died yesterday from preventable diseases and malnutrition." Would the aid money rush in? Does it?http://www.alternet.org/story/20890/
Plus, George Monbiot opines that if the money promised to the victims of the tsunami falls far short of the amounts required, it is partly because of other priorities, namely the war on Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20885/
HOW BUSH WON
Mark Danner, Tomdispatch.com
Tales from the frontlines of Bush's reelection.
http://www.alternet.org/election04/20853/
WRITING DOWN THE BONES
Jordan E. Rosenfeld, AlterNet
Can a government-sponsored war anthology, written byveterans of recent wars, truly represent the vast breadthof the war experience?
http://www.alternet.org/story/20886/
EVANGELICAL ELITISTS
Ayelish McGarvey, Washington Monthly
The exclusive church where Washington's conservative powerbrokers pray very consciously aims its ministry at theruling class.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20889/
DOCS ON THE ROCKS
Scott Foundas, LA Weekly
Due to esoteric, shifting, and sometimes just plaindiscriminatory rules, many of the year's most intriguingdocumentaries aren't in the running for the Oscar.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/20887/
More Movie Mix: http://www.alternet.org/movies/
THE PERSISTENCE OF ALTRUISM
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet
If the laws of economics are on the same plane as the lawsof nature, what's so bad about answering the call fromvictims of economic storms?http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20883/
More Sean Gonsalves: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/4581/
Two Issues May Deeply Divide Next Congress
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405E.shtml
Edelstein and Krebs It's Time to Get Out of Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405F.shtml
Howard T. & Elisabeth Odum The Prosperous Way Down
http://www.truthout.environment.shtml
Patrick Sabatier Tsunami Calculations
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405H.shtml
John Kerry: 'I'm Going to Learn'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405I.shtml
The Free Press Bush Victory Does Not Compute
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405J.shtml
AP: U.S. Gave $1B in Faith-Based Funds
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405K.shtml
Tony Judt Old Anti-Semites - And the New
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405L.shtml
Joseph Stiglitz This Can't Go On Forever - So It Won't
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405X.shtml
David Swanson Media Whites Out Vote Fraud
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405Y.shtml
Shirley Chisholm, First Black Congresswoman, Dies at 80
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405Z.shtml
FACING THE PAIN
Don Hazen, AlterNet
Howard Dean discusses what he learned from his grassrootscampaign -- and how, no matter how painful it is, changemust happen in the Democratic party.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20878/
SONTAG AND TSUNAMI
Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com
It may be strange to weigh two recent incidents --Susan Sontag's death and the Asian tsunamis -- against each other. But Sontag's comments allow us to examine the terms in which news and images are delivered to us.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20876/
FLEEAMERICA.COM
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Progressive
There's no reason to be stuck with a nationality that doesn'treflect the real you! Apply now for a country appropriate toyour personal tastes and values!
http://www.alternet.org/story/20875/
MAYTAG MORASS
David Moberg, In These Times
The closing of the Galesburg Maytag plant has leftmanufacturing workers pondering an uncertain future.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20877/
A DEVIL'S ISLAND FOR OUR TIMES
Robert Scheer, AlterNet
The military and legal systems that have looked the otherway are our own.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20862/
More Robert Scheer columns: http://www.alternet.org/authors/2676/
CLINTON KEPT HOTEL RWANDA OPEN
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
Clinton's buck-passing covered up the hideous truth that he knew about the genocide from the start, and could have done something about it.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20872/
More Earl Ofari Hutchinson columns: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/3466/
Paul Krugman Confusions about Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305F.shtml
Marcus Godinho Grab, Grab, Grab May Cost Us Dear
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305G.shtml
Bush Administration Faces Record Afghan Poppy Crop
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305I.shtml
Jonathan Raban The Truth About Terrorism
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305J.shtml
Bush Labor Board Seen As Anti-Worker
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305K.shtml
David Sirota Debunking 'Centrism'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305L.shtml
California Congressman Matsui Dies at 63
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305V.shtml
U.S. Plans Lifetime Detentions with No Trial
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305Y.shtml
Conservatives Raise Millions to Privatize Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205D.shtml
The St. Petersburg Times Soul-Searching Starts Year
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205F.shtml
Global Warming, Pollution Add to Coastal Threats
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Democracy Week Ohio Recount Steeped in Fraud
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205I.shtml
Rehnquist Sees Threat to Judiciary
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205K.shtml
Patrick J. Buchanan 'Stay the Course!' Is Not Enough
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205L.shtml
The Top Ten War Profiteers of 2004
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205X.shtml
Jared Diamond The Ends of the World as We Know Them
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205Y.shtml
Steve Weissman Torture - From J.F.K. to Baby Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104A.shtml
The New York Times Are We Stingy? Yes
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104B.shtml
Sidney Blumenthal A State of Chaos
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104D.shtml
AARP Criticizes Plan on Privatizing Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104F.shtml
A Challenged Environment: How Environmentalists Can Matter Again
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Gerard Dupuy The Extent of Unpreparedness
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104H.shtml
Economy Not Kind to Working Poor
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104J.shtml
Bush Takes Rare Step of Debating bin Laden
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104L.shtml
Conyers to Object to Ohio Electors, Requests Senate Allies
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104W.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010905E.shtml
Tsunami May Have Severely Damaged Coral Reefs
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Report Faults CIA's Pre-9/11 Counter-Terrorism
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010905J.shtml
Bush Paints His Goals as 'Crises'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010905K.shtml
Effort Under Way to Weaken U.S. Endangered Species Law
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010905W.shtml
Bush Secret Memo Advises Cuts in Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805B.shtml
White House Mulls Geneva Convention Overhaul
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805E.shtml
Dahr Jamail Iraq: The Devastation
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805F.shtml
Jared Diamond Disasters Waiting to Happen
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Edwy Plenel A Time of Catastrophes
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805H.shtml
Norman Solomon Acts of God, Acts of Media
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805K.shtml
William Rivers Pitt Heroes
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805X.shtml
ConocoPhillips Leaves ANWR Lobby Group
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805Y.shtml
POWER PLAY
Don Hazen, AlterNet
The battle for the "soul of the Democratic Party" has begun, with the opening skirmishes over Howard Dean and reproductive rights.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20922/
KEEP OBJECTING
John Nichols, The Nation
The brief debate over certification of the Ohio resultscannot be the end of the process. Democrats and Republicansneed to continue to feel the heat if election reform is tobe a reality.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20920/
TEN QUESTIONS FOR GONZALES
The Progress Report
The Senate began questioning attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales Thursday. Here are the questions they should be asking.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/20908/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
LYNCHING SOCIAL SECURITY
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
While health care and global warming are serious problems,Social Security isn't. We are, however, about to beswamped by an election-style campaign to convince us it is.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20916/
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
Ed Rampell, AlterNet
A blacklisted screenwriter takes a look at theReds-under-the-beds Cold War hysteria, documenting hisyears under FBI surveillance.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/20917/
G.O.P. Divided as Bush Views Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705B.shtml
Government Case to Destroy Civil Rights Lawyer Called "Cruel and Reckless"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705C.shtml
Sidney Blumenthal The Neocons Have a Hand in Aceh, Too
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705E.shtml
Maureen Dowd Don't Torture Yourself (That's His Job)http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705F.shtml
Reading Winds, Waves May Have Saved Ancient Tribes on Remote Indian Islands
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Mysterious Anti-American Conspiracy in Kuwait
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705H.shtml
Tom Engelhardt American Gothic: Self-Portrait with Shackles for the Year 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705I.shtml
William Pfaff Soft-Power Victories
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705J.shtml
The New York Times Ethics in the House
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705K.shtml
Will Pitt Interviews Rep. Conyers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010705W.shtml
ONE PILL MAKES YOU BETTER
Vince Beiser, Chico News and Review
Drug and alcohol addicts are crossing the border to tryan addiction treatment called ibogaine, a powerfulhallucinogen that is banned in the US.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20913/
DAUGHTERS FOR DEBTS
Hayatullah Gaheez, AlterNet
Afghan poppy growers say the government's anti-drug program is forcing them to surrender their children to drug dealers.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20892/
TOP 10 DRUG-WAR STORIES OF 2004
The Editors, Austin Chronicle
It was a year to remember: hemp food was legalized; princess costumes were vilified; and medical marijuana made it to the nation's highest court.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20909/
WIRED AND TIRED
Maia Szalavitz, STATS
Why is the media still hyping an unproven and possibly deadly treatment for drug addiction?http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20891/
THE ORAL SNUFF RUSE
Jacob Sullum, Reason
The federal government's misinformation campaign encouragespeople to think smokeless tobacco is just as dangerous ascigarettes.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20914/
RETHINKING IRAQ
Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet
To be both responsible and effective, the anti-war movementhas to mature into a tightly organized, disciplinedpolitical campaign with a well-honed agenda and plan ofaction.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20902/
SENATORS SHOULD OBJECT TO OHIO VOTE
Rev. Jesse Jackson, AlterNet
The irregularities in the Ohio vote and vote count arewidespread and blatant -- an in-depth investigationis vital.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20897/
SOMETHING STRANGE
Jonathan Schell, The Nation
Why, when human need is the greatest, should the humanresponse always be left to whim?http://www.alternet.org/story/20903/
UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED
Yvonne Bynoe, AlterNet
Throughout her life, Shirley Chisholm publicly defiedconventional notions about race, gender and class.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20904/
DYING WITH DIGNITY
Matthew Scott Kelemen, AlterNet
Alejandro Amenábar explores the life of right-to-dieactivist Ramón Sampedro in 'The Sea Inside.'
http://www.alternet.org/movies/20905/
A CHANGE OF HEART
Michael Dorf, FindLaw.com
The latest Justice Department memo broadens the definitionof torture, but still leaves the door open to abuse.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/20901/
More Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights/
Steve Weissman But What If Torture Works?http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605A.shtml
The "Crime of November 2"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605B.shtml
Race for the Arctic
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Powell Says It Plainly: Aid Has Image Value
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605J.shtml
Anne Applebaum Does the Right Remember Abu Ghraib?http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605K.shtml
Bruce Babbitt An Administration Roadmap to Salmon Extinction
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605X.shtml
The Conyers Report: What Went Wrong in Ohio
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605Y.shtml
THE 25 DUMBEST QUOTES OF 2004
Daniel Kurtzman, AlterNet.
Outrageous spin, inane flubs and Bill O'Reilly trying to talk sexy - all ready for consumption thanks to the internets.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20852/
ON THE 'PERSON OF THE YEAR' ISSUE
Matt Taibbi, New York Press.
Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' issue struggles to portray Bush as the intellectual statesman just as it takes blogs to task for their lack of professionalism. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20881/
MEDIA SENSE AND SENSIBILITIES
Norman Solomon, AlterNet.
Vigorous journalism is essential to prevent further erosion of civil liberties and other fundamental rights.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20880/
A REPLY TO THE NEW REPUBLIC
Eric Alterman, The Nation.
While the New Republic presented a much-needed liberal national security strategy, their effort amounts to a sophisticated version of More of the Same. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20874/
THE 2004 FALSIES AWARDS
Laura Miller, AlterNet.
Remembering the people and players responsible for polluting our information environment. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20865/
THE NEVERENDING STORY
Michael Lerner, Tikkun
Imagine if every day there were headlines saying: "29,000children died yesterday from preventable diseases and malnutrition." Would the aid money rush in? Does it?http://www.alternet.org/story/20890/
Plus, George Monbiot opines that if the money promised to the victims of the tsunami falls far short of the amounts required, it is partly because of other priorities, namely the war on Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20885/
HOW BUSH WON
Mark Danner, Tomdispatch.com
Tales from the frontlines of Bush's reelection.
http://www.alternet.org/election04/20853/
WRITING DOWN THE BONES
Jordan E. Rosenfeld, AlterNet
Can a government-sponsored war anthology, written byveterans of recent wars, truly represent the vast breadthof the war experience?
http://www.alternet.org/story/20886/
EVANGELICAL ELITISTS
Ayelish McGarvey, Washington Monthly
The exclusive church where Washington's conservative powerbrokers pray very consciously aims its ministry at theruling class.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20889/
DOCS ON THE ROCKS
Scott Foundas, LA Weekly
Due to esoteric, shifting, and sometimes just plaindiscriminatory rules, many of the year's most intriguingdocumentaries aren't in the running for the Oscar.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/20887/
More Movie Mix: http://www.alternet.org/movies/
THE PERSISTENCE OF ALTRUISM
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet
If the laws of economics are on the same plane as the lawsof nature, what's so bad about answering the call fromvictims of economic storms?http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20883/
More Sean Gonsalves: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/4581/
Two Issues May Deeply Divide Next Congress
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405E.shtml
Edelstein and Krebs It's Time to Get Out of Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405F.shtml
Howard T. & Elisabeth Odum The Prosperous Way Down
http://www.truthout.environment.shtml
Patrick Sabatier Tsunami Calculations
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405H.shtml
John Kerry: 'I'm Going to Learn'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405I.shtml
The Free Press Bush Victory Does Not Compute
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405J.shtml
AP: U.S. Gave $1B in Faith-Based Funds
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405K.shtml
Tony Judt Old Anti-Semites - And the New
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405L.shtml
Joseph Stiglitz This Can't Go On Forever - So It Won't
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405X.shtml
David Swanson Media Whites Out Vote Fraud
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405Y.shtml
Shirley Chisholm, First Black Congresswoman, Dies at 80
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405Z.shtml
FACING THE PAIN
Don Hazen, AlterNet
Howard Dean discusses what he learned from his grassrootscampaign -- and how, no matter how painful it is, changemust happen in the Democratic party.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20878/
SONTAG AND TSUNAMI
Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com
It may be strange to weigh two recent incidents --Susan Sontag's death and the Asian tsunamis -- against each other. But Sontag's comments allow us to examine the terms in which news and images are delivered to us.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20876/
FLEEAMERICA.COM
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Progressive
There's no reason to be stuck with a nationality that doesn'treflect the real you! Apply now for a country appropriate toyour personal tastes and values!
http://www.alternet.org/story/20875/
MAYTAG MORASS
David Moberg, In These Times
The closing of the Galesburg Maytag plant has leftmanufacturing workers pondering an uncertain future.
http://www.alternet.org/story/20877/
A DEVIL'S ISLAND FOR OUR TIMES
Robert Scheer, AlterNet
The military and legal systems that have looked the otherway are our own.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20862/
More Robert Scheer columns: http://www.alternet.org/authors/2676/
CLINTON KEPT HOTEL RWANDA OPEN
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet
Clinton's buck-passing covered up the hideous truth that he knew about the genocide from the start, and could have done something about it.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20872/
More Earl Ofari Hutchinson columns: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/3466/
Paul Krugman Confusions about Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305F.shtml
Marcus Godinho Grab, Grab, Grab May Cost Us Dear
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305G.shtml
Bush Administration Faces Record Afghan Poppy Crop
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305I.shtml
Jonathan Raban The Truth About Terrorism
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305J.shtml
Bush Labor Board Seen As Anti-Worker
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305K.shtml
David Sirota Debunking 'Centrism'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305L.shtml
California Congressman Matsui Dies at 63
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305V.shtml
U.S. Plans Lifetime Detentions with No Trial
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305Y.shtml
Conservatives Raise Millions to Privatize Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205D.shtml
The St. Petersburg Times Soul-Searching Starts Year
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205F.shtml
Global Warming, Pollution Add to Coastal Threats
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Democracy Week Ohio Recount Steeped in Fraud
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205I.shtml
Rehnquist Sees Threat to Judiciary
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205K.shtml
Patrick J. Buchanan 'Stay the Course!' Is Not Enough
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205L.shtml
The Top Ten War Profiteers of 2004
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205X.shtml
Jared Diamond The Ends of the World as We Know Them
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010205Y.shtml
Steve Weissman Torture - From J.F.K. to Baby Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104A.shtml
The New York Times Are We Stingy? Yes
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104B.shtml
Sidney Blumenthal A State of Chaos
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104D.shtml
AARP Criticizes Plan on Privatizing Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104F.shtml
A Challenged Environment: How Environmentalists Can Matter Again
http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml
Gerard Dupuy The Extent of Unpreparedness
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104H.shtml
Economy Not Kind to Working Poor
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104J.shtml
Bush Takes Rare Step of Debating bin Laden
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104L.shtml
Conyers to Object to Ohio Electors, Requests Senate Allies
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104W.shtml
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